membebaskan
Indonesian
Etymology
Affixation of bebas + meng- -kan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /məmbeˈbaskan/ [məm.beˈbas.kan]
- Rhymes: -askan
- Syllabification: mem‧be‧bas‧kan
Verb
membebaskan (active membebaskan, reflexive passive terbebaskan, ordinary passive dibebaskan, imperative bebaskan, emphatic-jussive bebaskanlah)
- to free, to relieve, to exempt
- to allow, to permit.
- to acquit
- to legally dismiss a summons
- to liberate
- to make free, to give/grant independence/freedom
- to acquire land, to expropriate land.
- to absolve
- to clear
- to emancipate
- to exonerate
- to exculpate
- to enfranchise
- to remit
- to let off
- to loose
- to release
- to relieve
Further reading
- “membebaskan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Malay
Etymology
mem- + bebas (“unconstrained”) + -kan
Verb
membebaskan (Jawi spelling ممبيبسکن)
Related terms
- dibebaskan (passive form)